Therapeutic cervical medial branch blocks: A changing paradigm in interventional pain management

Pain Physician

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 279-281

  Boswell, Mark V ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; BUPIVACAINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CORTICOSTEROID; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEXILETINE; PLACEBO; SODIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ALLODYNIA; ANALGESIA; ARTHRALGIA; CERVICAL PLEXUS; CERVICAL SPINE; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; NEUROLYSIS; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ARTHRALGIA; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; NECK PAIN; NERVE BLOCK; SPINAL NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ZYGAPOPHYSEAL JOINT;

EID: 33750893861     PISSN: 15333159     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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